Scratch News Archive

Publications:

Make Magazine (January 2010): Intro to Scratch: Make your own games and animations, free and easy.

PC World (November 2009): Book Review - Scratch 1.4: A Beginner's Guide

Boston Globe (May 2009): Young Game Designers Unite at MIT

School Library Journal (May 2009): Celebrating Scratch in Libraries

Voice of America (May 2009): Scratch Gives Students Tools to Create Interactive Media

MIT News (May 2009): Scratch Day Goes Global

Wired (March 2009): Scratch Lowers Resistance to Programming

American Libraries (July 2008): Minds At Play

Edutopia (July 2008): Play to Learn: The Scratch Programming Language Sneaks Serious Fun into the Classroom

L'Atelier (French) (July 2008): Scratch Ouvre le Developpement aux Tres

New Scientist (July 2008): Creating Your Own Computer Game is Child's Play

Chronicle of Higher Education (July 2007): Fun, Not Fear, Is at the Heart of Scratch, a New Programming Language (video)

BBC (May 2007): Free Tool offers 'Easy' Coding

Boston Globe (May 2007): Programming Becomes Child's Play

New York Times (May 2007 ) A Programming Language Like Playing With Blocks

Chronicle of Higher Ed (May 2007): Starting with Scratch

Economist (May 2007): Computing: Child's play

Linux Magazine, Spain (May 2007): Una Herramienta Lúdica de Iniciación a la Programación

MIT Tech Talk (May 2007): Creating with Scratch

Spectrum IEEE (May 2007): New Software Turns Kids into Programmers

Tuoitre, Vietnam (May 2007): (Article in Vietnamese)
 

Blogs:

College Mogul (August 2009): 500,000 Projects on Scratch: A Programming Platform for Kids

Futures of Learning (July 2009): Learning from the Edges, Part 1: The Importance of Play

Bob Sprankle podcast (July 2009): Scratch podcast

New York Times Gadgetwise (May 2009): Scratch Helps Kids Get with the Program

PC World (May 2009): Scratch Day 2009 - Computer Programming for Kids

Makeuseof.com (April 2009): Kids Can Learn Programming from Scratch!

The Register (March 2009): Boffins Breed New Programming Race

Linux.com (December 2008): Open-Source Programming Languages for Kids

Lost Intentions (December 2008): Scratching Over the Holidays

Museum 2.0 (October 2008): Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community That Works

Richard G. Baldwin (August 2008):  The New Face of Computer Science Education: The Scratch Generation

iSURFFers (July 2008): Scratch@MIT Conference

Reddit (July 2007): Scratch Programming Language... Great Way for Kids to Learn! (check out the videos)

Barrapunto, Spain (May 2007): Scratch: Programación Sencilla de Animaciones y Juegos Para Niños

Digg (May 2007):Scratch: A New Programming Language to Introduce Kids to Coding

El Mundo, Spain (May 2007): Animaciones Fáciles a Base de 'Ladrillos'

Joystiq (May 2007): Scratch Teaches Game Programming, Commenting Etiquette

New Scientist Technology Blog (May 2007): Coding Made Simple

News.com (May 2007): MIT, UCLA Develop Programming Language for Kids

Slashdot (May 2007): MIT Media Lab Making Programming Fun for Kids

Wired Blog (May 2007): Kids' Programming from Scratch